Göteborg

Visited Göteborg , the 2nd largest city in Sweden, over the last weekend. About 4 hours drive from Karlskrona to Göteborg:

About an hour before Göteborg, we stopped over at a village called Ullared. It houses supposedly one of the largest low-price clothes store in Sweden, called Gekås. According to the Swedes, they make a prilgrimage here once a year to stock up on items, especially ard Xmas.

To tell u the truth, it wasnt that big to us, think Carrefour at Suntec is bigger. But there were tonnes of people, and the carpark is huuuuge...

This is only level 1.. We were at level 3 as below, and got abit lost when finding the car afterwards.

And 58 checkout counters.. we queued more than half an hour just to pay our stuff.. simply because tonnes of people, and they were carting away trolleys of items. People must be laughing at us coz we only had a basket of items.

Onwards to Göteborg:

Sights in the city:

They have a tram system..

Göteborgs Operan, an opera house

Ullevi, outdoor stadium

Can u see the spectators stand..

Liseberg Park, the largest amusement park in Scandinavia.

Universeum, aka Science Discovery Centre

The 'lift' is pretty unique..

The unique thing about Universeum is that it has a rainforest built into it. Its very humid inside, just like Singapore!

Tjolöholm Slott- Slott means castle in Swedish

Also met up with Vinc and Veron, fellow Singaporeans staying in Göteborg. We had dinner at a Malaysian restaurant. Vinc is studying in Chalmers, while Veron is studying Swedish.

Very envious of Veron, she was able to converse in Swedish with the locals, after being here for close to a year. She says that without Swedish, its very difficult to integrate into the Swede community, which I totally agree. Although most Swedes can speak English very well, and u can probably survive here without knowing a single word of Swedish, Swedish is still their conversational language. Its just like attempting to get to know the Chinese in Singapore, we use Mandarin in our conversations, and not knowing Mandarin would probably be awkward for a foreigner. Hope to be like Veron when I get back to S'pore.. at my stage now, my violin teacher finds it amusing when I sputter Swedish to her; Swedes speak in English to me even though I attempt to speak Swedish to them. They can probably tell from my awkward Swedish lar.